Comment by Emergency-Twist7136 on 02/02/2025 at 04:00 UTC

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View submission: Reaching 50 - Reliability in Men's Test Cricket. Along the x-axis, we see the % of innings that a batter reached 50 and along the y-axis, their total number of innings (min. 5,000 test runs/Bradman excluded as he compresses the scatter graph too greatly).

Reminds me of something I periodically think about. Players that get 50s but rarely go on to a really big score her a lot of criticism, but would you rather have a player who averages 50 and contributes 50 every single innings or one who gets a 200 one innings on a flat track but then three ducks?

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Comment by imapassenger1 at 02/02/2025 at 05:19 UTC

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You'd take 30 every time from both openers if you could get it I think. But it would be frustrating.

Comment by IrregularExpression_ at 02/02/2025 at 05:00 UTC

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When people think of the Waugh twins Steve is considered the better batsman given his much better average.

But their median scores (from memory, couldnt see this in the charts) are very similar.